District Court Soest

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Courthouse

The Soest District Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction and one of ten District Courts (AG) in the district of the Arnsberg District Court .

Seat and District of the Court

The seat of the court is in the medium-sized city of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The AG Soest is locally responsible for Bad Sassendorf , Lippetal , Möhnesee , Soest and Welver . In addition, the Soest District Court is responsible for agricultural matters in the districts of Soest and Warstein as well as for jury cases in the districts of Soest, Warstein and Werl.

The Arnsberg District Court, which is also the insolvency court, is responsible for keeping the commercial , cooperative and association register .

Superior courts

The Arnsberg Regional Court is directly superordinate to the AG Soest . The Hamm Higher Regional Court is superordinate to this.

building

The address of AG Soest is: Nöttenstrasse 28, 59494 Soest .

In 1856 the Prussian judiciary had acquired the property at Nöttenstrasse 28 for its Soest city court, which was still in existence at the time. There Prussia had the core of today's courthouse built with an adjacent prison building. The old part of the service building, which was significantly expanded in 1959, is now a listed building. In 1876, the old building was expanded while maintaining the late classical style and was completed in its current form. The prison wing was closed in 1969 by the Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia. The premises of the prison were converted into office space - especially for the land registry - in accordance with the increased space requirements of the district court . Today only seven cells on the middle floor are used as prison cells for youth arrest and demonstration purposes.

staff

Ten professional judges , thirteen legal clerks , six bailiffs and a total of 40 other employees work at AG Soest . The Soest District Court is therefore more of a small court.

history

The AG Soest sees itself in the legal tradition of the medieval capital of Westphalia. This certainly begins at the beginning of the 12th century at the latest .

The actual development to today's AG Soest begins with the fact that Soest and its city ​​court fell to Prussia in 1608 after the Jülisch-Kleveschen succession dispute . The development then continued via the royal Prussian city court, whose narrow district was expanded in 1839 through a connection with the north adjoining justice office Oestinghausen to Hovestadt, whereby the court was given the name "regional and city court", to the " district court " of the years 1849– 1879.

The reform of the Reich judiciary in 1877 led to the establishment of today's AG Soest in 1879. With the Prussian ordinance concerning the establishment of the local courts, the newly formed Soest Local Court was assigned to the new Dortmund Regional Court . By law of September 13, 1933, together with the district courts of Menden and Werl , it was finally assigned to the Arnsberg district court. This was intended to compensate for the fact that the Arnsberg Regional Court had lost almost half of its catchment area in the south through the creation of the Siegen Regional Court .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 21.5 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 7.5 ″  E